The story in other sections of the country has been thesame in principle—protective laws, game refuges, education ofsportsmen. We now have all the deer that the marginal landswill support.
East of the Mississippi, there seems to be no more frontiersfor the deer. In some sections the concentration is so greatthat there is not enough natural food to support them. It wasfound necessary to open the season on doe in order to reducethe herd in these hard pressed regions. So, in the Eastern halfof our country, it would appear as though we cannot expecta great many more deer than we have now. They are rele-gated to marginal lands, places that the white man has ex-ploited, "cut out and got out," leaving nature to heal the
